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Per posted:Is it hard to keep track of the performers' real names vs. stage names? As in, do you ever slip up and use the real name when talking to third parties outside the industry for instance? Semi-related answer, the wrestler Raven has said in interviews since leaving 'the biz' (of wrestling, not porn) that it is appropriate as a fan if you see him in the street to say "Hey Raven, can I have an autograph," and that generally other preformers are the same way, and don't want you saying "Scott Levy, I loved your work in WCW!" Even Oprah doesn't interview Tom Mapother, it's Tom Cruise, and backstage it's the same.
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darkpriest posted:I've always wondered if they spike their penises. What on earth does this mean? I've got something like half a dozen possibilities fighting it out in my brain and to be honest I really don't want to google that.
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There's at least one drug on the market that has the same action as viagra but is more intense, you have to inject it into your dick.
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How often do guys struggle with busting a nut too early during a scene? If so, what happens? (as in the what the director does, does it affect the male talent's career, etc) How often do women have accidents during anal? Are enemas absolutely required beforehand? Did you ever gently caress Jenaveve Jolie? 
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Ungoal posted:How often do guys struggle with busting a nut too early during a scene? If so, what happens? (as in the what the director does, does it affect the male talent's career, etc) I'd absolutely imagine the opposite is more common.
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May 1, 2014 01:06
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For crew members, is their much overlap between porn and more mainstream movies? You said you worked on a Disney movie, but is that common?
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Exioce posted:Economics questions! That figure can vary widely on what a production costs. It greatly depends on the genre and the caliber of performers you are hiring. On average a quality production, after the cost of performers, makeup, crew, location, editing, artwork, and replication/printing would run between 22,000 to 28,000. A project that is story driven and has more elaborate sets/costumes and larger crews could start 40 to 50k and go all the way up to 100 to 200k. On the productions that are under 30k the majority of that cost is the performers. I would say 65 to 70% of that is going to them. On bigger productions that percentage is much less due to the more elaborate locations costing serious money. A return on that investment greatly depends on your market strength (brand value) and your distribution methods. The top tier companies are relying on revenue from physical media (DVD), Video on Demand, Membership sites, Broadcast and Mobile, though mobile isn't a big revenue stream. The problem is that unless you are a well branded company, the buyers can bleed you. For example at Evil Angel I own my movies. I have to have them completely finished 8 weeks before street date. Meaning the movies are edited and mastered and the boxcovers and artwork is all done. That 8 weeks is both to double check everything, what is sometimes called QC (quality control) and then to allow time for the DVD's to be replicated. It also allows time to get the movies prepared for Internet, VOD and Broadcast. In adult street date usually means all platforms. So my productions come out on the Internet, VOD and DVD on the same date. So I have funded my movie and it won't be on the street for anyone to buy for 8 weeks after I've turned it in. The distributors who then buy these products have upwards of 120 days to then pay for it AFTER the street date. So as you continually put out movies, you could have 100,000 or 200,000 worth of product on the street before you ever see a dime of profit. The profit you start getting is for product you put out 6 months earlier. I think the Steam/iTunes concept would be difficult to create for adult. It would need to be a large mainstream carrier that offers both adult and mainstream movies for sale. The VOD sites like AEBN, Hotmovies, Gamelink and Videobox sort of fill the void of the iTunes model. A consumer can pay for X amount of minutes a month and literally watch every new release that comes out from every company. Even I pay for minutes on those sites and 20 or 30 bucks can buy you a large amount of time to watch a massive library of content. And you only pay for what you watch.
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Kafka Esq. posted:A lot of your trailers seem to involve a lot of fisheye camera work. How much of your lighting and angle choices are designed to make the guy look huge and the girl look tiny? I know it's POV but in some of your work it's insane. Nearly all non-feature sex scenes are shot with some form of a fish eye or wide angle lens. Earlier on when I started shooting POV using a DSLR I was using a lens that allowed me to get insanely close and keep focus. It was a fisheye lens designed for macro photo/video. After awhile I began to dislike the more extreme fisheye look of that. I ended up investing in a much nicer piece of glass that is still very wide, but doesn't have the distortion. What I like about the fisheye look is how to makes a girls butt or breasts look very round and very big. I no longer use that earlier fish eye lens and haven't used it in well over a year.
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May 1, 2014 01:31
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cf1140 posted:What % of the creampie scenes you have shot are fake? I have only shot one creampie scene that is real. I would say the majority are fake. In terms of the most in demand performers you can always see the rankings on freeones. It has somewhat stayed the same with new girls coming into the mix. Asa Akira, Lisa Ann, Nikki Benz, Jada Stevens, Bonnie Rotten, and then news ones like August Ames, Alina Li, Dillion Harper, Lola Foxx
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May 1, 2014 01:34
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EvilElmo posted:Did you bank with Chase? I do not bank at Chase. Every couple of years there is always a bank that suddenly realizes that do business with the industry and tries to stop. I think in the past Citibank did the same thing.
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Count Freebasie posted:First, I've always loved your threads on this - thanks for rebooting it. I shot Gianna a ton. Probably 10 times, maybe more. I never did a scene with Gianna. Gianna was a no bullshit kind of girl. There was a slight tomboy quality to her. She still works in the industry just behind the scenes now for Reality Kings. quote:Also, in their personal lives, are porn actresses very relaxed in casual sexual relationships? Meaning they meet a friend-of-a-friend at a party, they think he's cool - would they be more likely to have have sex with him as they may view it as "not as big a thing to do" as the general public would? Like, when a "normal" girl would meet you at a club and make out with you, would a porn actress instead be willing to sleep with you? You have to look at it from their perspective. Pretty much every moment of the day they are hit on. On their social networking sites they are constantly hit on. When they come to set they are hit on in some fashion. Most of them are very attractive so in public they get hit on. If they are popular then they obviously get noticed. People always assume because they make porn they are easy. They aren't. If anything that are even more selective, because they are already having sex on a frequent basis so in order to do it for sure pure fun it is going to require a bit more meaning for them. That doesn't mean they don't date normal guys. Many absolutely do. But at the end of the day they are women. The only advice I can give is don't be weird (ie creepy). Be the confident funny guy. Confidence is a huge thing and not something I learned till much later in life.
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darkpriest posted:Everyone is pushing 4k. However to me 4k is silly. Without a display that can support a 4k image, the majority of people won't be able to see the difference. On top of that 4k can only be streamed or broadcast for adult and even broadcasting 4k isn't happening anytime soon. So while everyone is rushing off to get into 4k, to me it's dynamic range that is the most important next step. That is something the viewer may not understand, but will simply come across with better highlights and lowlights and a better range of light and color. I'd take a camera with amazing dynamic range over 4k anyday. Does anyone know what the bandwidth requirements of such as display would be? I thinks there's a combination of resolution x color depth x frames per second...
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How does the order for a typical scene go? Do certain things get shot first and then edited together for continuity? How do you shoot the pictures for your scenes? Do you shoot the video intro for your scenes first, and then do it all over again for the stills? If an average scene is going to be 30 minutes-ish, how long does that take on-set?
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darkpriest posted:I have only shot one creampie scene that is real. Tab8715 posted:Does anyone know what the bandwidth requirements of such as display would be? I thinks there's a combination of resolution x color depth x frames per second... Answers to this question will vary - you can compress it at whatever rate you want, and depending on what kind of blowhard you're dealing with, they will complain at varying levels about the compression. If you're watching that beautiful nature footage on Discovery, it's probably being compressed down to 4-6Mbps. But the footage that was delivered to Discovery was probably compressed 30-50Mbps. In short, "it depends".
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May 1, 2014 05:27
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photomikey posted:I will probably regret asking this, but what product is used to replicate the creampie? Dark priest mentioned last time that cetaphil is pretty popular since it's a cleansing agent that is also pretty inert.
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May 1, 2014 08:19
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How do you "fake" a cumshot, especially for facials? What kind of fitness regimen do you adhere to to ensure that you look pleasing to the camera when you have to perform?
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Lincoln`s Wax posted:My wife ordered me a Oculus dev kit for an anniversary present. I honestly hadn't given it much thought but she joked about me just using it for VR porn. I googled it and it actually looks like a company is making stuff. Since a lot of your work has been pov stuff, do you see that type of immersive material becoming a thing in the future? I honestly don't even know how tracking would work with a video but being how the industry tends to go hogwild with new tech (HD, now 4k poo poo), I'm guessing someone's already working on it. That would be amazing to move into something like VR porn where the the user is having a virtual experience. The leap to that would be huge. I certainly think in time that would be possible. But in order to make the investment in that realistic, VR headsets would need to be a wide spread technology that many people have access to.
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Per posted:Is it hard to keep track of the performers' real names vs. stage names? As in, do you ever slip up and use the real name when talking to third parties outside the industry for instance? Only time I use someone's real name is if I know them well or have worked with them for many years. Obviously when you are dating someone you don't use their stage name.
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Liar posted:What's with the Orange Sunshine posted:The rate of HIV infection amongst gay men is something like 50 times as high as it is amongst heterosexuals. Since straight porn involves mostly sex without condoms, including anal sex, the idea is to keep anyone who might likely have HIV out entirely. There has been a slight hysteria, whether it is real or imagined, that men engaged in homosexual activity could bring HIV into the straight pool of talent. This is also fueled further by the fact the gay side of the industry does not test.
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May 1, 2014 18:12
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darkpriest posted:the gay side of the industry does not test.  why the hell not?
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Base Emitter posted:Is it common for businesses in other industries to not do business with porn companies, or do most of them just want to get paid? If you are referring to companies outside adult or mainstream companies, many do business with adult, but try to conceal it. Common example is a company like Time Warner or Verizon. They do big business with adult in their broadcast division. Same goes for some of the major Hotel chains. The two biggest would be Visa and Mastercard. And both those have huge influence over what you see on the Internet. They both have divisions in their company that requires them to review the content the adult company wants to be processed for. If they don't approve of the content, then that site can't process that credit card. I'm honestly not sure how this situation with Comcast/Netflix would effect adult. Adult has been streaming video for so long now. Much longer then any mainstream company. On the membership sites most users are downloading the video to save later and watch. It would really only affect the Video on Demand sites. I imagine their footprint is so much smaller to something like Netflix or Hulu.
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jerichojx posted:drat, I'm so jealous that you are dating August Ames because I find her hot as hell. August is beautiful and such an easy going person. That stereotype of Canadians is definitely true with her. I would say about half the performers date outside the industry. They nearly all go through the process of trying to date inside the industry. For some they prefer it, others find it causes problems and so they try to have relationships outside the industry. Some are even married. They date all walks of life. As I stated in an earlier post, they are still attractive women. The only major difference is everyone assumes they are going to have sex with them because of their job. The opposite is usually true. They tend to be highly selective for recreational sex.
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darkpriest posted:That would be amazing to move into something like VR porn where the the user is having a virtual experience. The leap to that would be huge. I certainly think in time that would be possible. But in order to make the investment in that realistic, VR headsets would need to be a wide spread technology that many people have access to. I think with facebook throwing their money at Oculus and Sony making a set for the PS4, I kinda have a feeling that it will become a thing. I don't really like to make tech predictions because poo poo's crazy now but the second dev kit packs some serious, fairly high end tech stuff for what it costs. I got to try the first kit and as clunky as it was, it blew my goddamned mind. I hope it comes out and people latch onto it because it basically changed how I look at games.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Along the lines of the Gianna Michaels question- have you ever worked with Ava Devine? Is she really as out there as she seems? Or as crazy sexually as she says she is? I have shot Ava Devine before. I have never performed with her. Ava is sort of interesting in that she is very serious about her sobriety. She is a sponsor at AA and speaks openly and honestly about it. But then she has this crazy sexual side. So you have one side of her that likes to help people and then you have this other side that is a sexual dynamo. And perhaps they are connected in some fashion. She's a very nice person, which isn't something you can say about everyone. She is exactly as she says she is. I don't see performers talking to voices in their head or rocking back and forth. I don't know what interviews where performers are acting like they have mental illness. Performing is high pressure. Always looking good. Always having to be on point. The reality is some people don't have the mental fortitude for it and some might crack up.
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Boofchicken posted:How does the production of a softcore porn movie differ from hardcore, besides the obvious one scene hardcore movies? I also see a lot of hardcore actors that also do softcore and softcore that do hardcore. Is softcore a way for some actors to break into the hardcore scene to see if they are ready for it or is it just another way to make some money? Also, this might be a stupid question, but at any point in a softcore movie is penetration happening or is everything completely simulated? There are two sides to softcore. Softcore is where no penetration can be viewed. The penetration is hidden from the viewer. It also tends to be no direct shots of the genitalia. The majority of hardcore productions shoot a softcore version of the same scene. Companies do it this in a variety of ways. Some shoot the scene with multiple cameras. One camera is hard only and one camera is shooting only soft angles. Others will shoot the scene and then go back and shoot soft versions of those positions. The soft version is then licensed for broadcast. When a hardcore production is shot soft, it is up to the performers how they want to hide it. They can simulate it or they can have sex for real, but hide the penetration. The Cinemax or "Skinemax" movies you see on late night cable are usually a completely separate production. Cinemax produces their own softcore movies where the sex is completely simulated. Their product is only softcore. They cast actors for those productions from both the adult talent pool, because they are more comfortable with being naked for the camera. They also cast actors that are not adult performers, but must be fine with performing fake sex. In the Cinemax softcore productions the men wear this sock during the simulated sex scenes.
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What does Gianna do behind the scenes nowadays? I was wondering why I couldn't find any newer videos of her for a while now.
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Do any porn productions cater to a sort of "emotional" genre. Is there an audience of viewers who go for the idea of a "real" "loving" connection in a scene and prefer that sort of storytelling rather then the norm?
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Cyrano4747 posted:What on earth does this mean? I've got something like half a dozen possibilities fighting it out in my brain and to be honest I really don't want to google that. Prior to the creation of Viagra, the method used to combat severe cases of erectile dysfunction was through the drug Caverject. It is basically a solution that you inject into your penis. After several minutes it causes an erection.
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darkpriest posted:Considering also how rough oral sex scenes hurt, there is no way the males in these scenes are natural. They would be limp otherwise. I've always wondered if they spike their penises. It wasn't the guys I felt sorry for to be honest.
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photomikey posted:I will probably regret asking this, but what product is used to replicate the creampie? I think you might be able to figure out the math behind it but I'm not that well versed in "how many more bits of color" would impact a movie or picture. That said a Netflix 4k stream is about ~15mbps. darkpriest, any new actresses you fancy? Has there ever been a big-budget porno that's bombed similar to movies?
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Ungoal posted:How often do guys struggle with busting a nut too early during a scene? If so, what happens? (as in the what the director does, does it affect the male talent's career, etc) If a male performer can't control himself he has no future being a performer. Control is a major part of the job. If he were to climax early, at first the hope would be after a short break he could get back to it. If he can't then he just ruined the whole production. quote:How often do women have accidents during anal? Are enemas absolutely required beforehand? Yes most of the performers that perform anal have a series of ways in which to prevent any issues. Some stop eating the day before by 5pm. They then use an enema the night before. Before the scene they use an enema again, but many will empty the enema of the solution and just replace it with warm water. quote:Did you ever gently caress Jenaveve Jolie? I never shot her. She was one that slipped through the cracks before I got around to it. Shame on me.
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FalseShockWorker posted:For crew members, is their much overlap between porn and more mainstream movies? You said you worked on a Disney movie, but is that common? The grips and lighting guys are usually doing both mainstream and adult. They overlap fairly often. The only other segment that overlaps often would be makeup artists. Camera operators tend to stick to the industry and don't cross over. The industry isn't using Arri's or Red Epic's. Much larger leap from shooting adult to shooting mainstream movie productions.
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I work a lot as an editor, and while I've never done it myself, I've know several people that have edited porn. They all uniformly describe it as a dull grind and not fun or creative environment. I can completely see how directing or camera operating would be fun and interesting to do movie to movie, but most porn is cut in a pretty simple way. Are there any notoriously gifted porn editors, or many people who enjoy the creative work of editing porn? Do you cut the stuff you direct?
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Have you performed in a scene with your partner? If so how is it different from performing with another girl, or is it not very different at all because of the environment and professionalism?
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GoutPatrol posted:How does the order for a typical scene go? Do certain things get shot first and then edited together for continuity? How do you shoot the pictures for your scenes? Do you shoot the video intro for your scenes first, and then do it all over again for the stills? If an average scene is going to be 30 minutes-ish, how long does that take on-set? I'll break down how I do it. However keep it mind different companies do different things. Model arrives and gets into makeup. After makeup model does her paperwork, includes model release and has copies made of her IDs. This is to comply with a federal regulation called USC 2257. First thing we shoot are solo photos of the model. These are called "pretty girls". These photos are used in the artwork for the scene, including DVD boxcover or the in the ads and tours you see on membership sites. Depending on the performers and the type of scene you are shooting it can then go in a few different directions. Some scenes are "story boarded" with photos first. This means the performers act out the plot elements, but in a mime like fashion while pictures are taken. These types of "story boarded" images are most often seen on sites like Brazzers or Naughty America. Those story boarded photos then lead into hard core photos of the sex. The performers put their clothes back on, get back into the makeup chair for touch ups and then we setup for video. They then do the intro all over again for the video, which leads into the sex. If there is no plot or if there is no need for the story board photos, then the performers do all the video and then we break and do photos of the hard core sex and then resume the scene and complete it. If the scene is cut down to 30 minutes, most likely your shooting 40 to 45 minutes of video which can take several hours. If the scene is longer then that after being edited, then there is a lot more footage you shoot. There are instances where you sometimes shoot sequences out of order. This tends to happen more so with features, because you are dealing with sometimes complicated dialogue or settings that require certain lighting. You might shoot the sex first and then go back afterwards and shoot the dialogue.
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This is kind of a weird question, but I've noticed they rarely show insertion. It's always like she's gargling with his dick, immediate cut to her in the middle of bouncing on top of him. Since the guys are so big, is it like a process to fit it in with lube and time, or does it go normally but they just cut because everything is supposed to be 100% max stimulation 100% of the time?
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Imperialist Dog posted:How do you "fake" a cumshot, especially for facials? For creampies something similar to a turkey baster is filled with either Cetaphil or Pina Colada mix and interested into the vagina. It then comes out looking like an internal. For photos many times Cetaphil is used to fake the facial. Some producers like Monsters of Jizz or Cumshot Surprise use a setup with a thin clear tubing running underneath the penis that is attached to some sort of pump. The pump then dispenses pina colada mixture. quote:What kind of fitness regimen do you adhere to to ensure that you look pleasing to the camera when you have to perform? I should work out more, but I don't. Instead I focus more on diet. My job is pretty physical so that helps. However, now that I'm in my early forties it is much harder to stay thin. It is shocking how much your body changes as you age.
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